01 ／ Gate
The city says it reconstructed the south gate, the main entrance of Tagajo, with its earthen wall, as in the second period, the most splendid of four. The city records that Tagajo was founded in 724 by Ono no Azumahito and was enclosed by an earthen wall about 900 m square.
02 ／ Temple ruins
These ruins of an affiliated temple lie about 1.2 km southeast of the Tagajo site. A pagoda stood to the east, a golden hall facing east to the west, and a lecture hall to the north. The name is not recorded, but pottery marked "Kannon Temple" in Chinese characters was found, and the city says this is likely the temple's name.
03 ／ Pond
The Agency for Cultural Affairs describes Okinoi as a landscape where a shale rock mass rises from the center of a small pond, about 20 m across, fed by spring water. The city records that the Sendai domain redeveloped it in the time of its fourth lord, Date Tsunamura, and had the Yawata village headman manage it as Okunoi-no-mori.
Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.
Wide (about 6 km across)
Close (about 1.5 km across)
Now (shot May 2020)Shot 1974–78
Source: Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) GSI Tiles（全国最新写真（シームレス）／国土画像情報（第一期：1974〜1978年撮影））
Living here
The city's access guide says City Hall is a 4-minute walk from Tagajo Station on the JR Senseki Line, or 7 minutes by bus from Kokufu-Tagajo Station on the JR Tohoku Main Line. After a wooden tablet reading Kokushomai, thought to have been tied to a rice sack, was found at the Tagajo site, the city certified ancient rice, close to the original species of rice, as a local specialty.
+1.2% since 2015
60,625 → 62,827
19.18km² of it habitable
2024
2.4 people per household
2020
National average 60,630 yen
2023
6.5 per 10,000 people
2023
These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.
Shape
North to south
4.2km
Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.
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